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The Somali election didn’t deliver the long-awaited universal suffrage, but was another exercise in limited democracy that extended only to a small part of the population.
Kenneth Arrow, the Nobel prize winner who died last month, showed us there is no perfect voting rule. So how does his theory work?
In Africa, the idea of a post-truth era - which by implication fundamentally presupposes the existence of an era in which ‘truth’ was self-evident - is folly.
Millions took to protests after Donald Trump was elected, but others took to therapists’ offices. Read why the election was harder on some than others, and things you can do to take care of yourself.
Strategies that exploit what our online data trails reveal about us can be used to fool us into thinking our desires will be met. Brexit and Trump show us how politics at the margins can be played.
A grassroots opposition movement against the Donald Trump presidency is growing. The question is can it be harnessed into globalised sanctions campaign?
What was already an uneasy alliance first turned sour, and then utterly disintegrated. Where did it all go wrong?
The more we have to defend our choice to others, the more certain we become that we are right. So what can we do about it?
Elections worldwide are becoming increasingly dependent on technology. But, typically, the electronic systems adopted suffer from weak transparency and scrutiny even when the outcome is challenged.
In this year’s election, the system of majority voting didn’t allow voters to express their opinions adequately. If they had, the choice would have been between Kasich and Sanders.
Even if fake articles could be curbed and filtered news modified, there’s something built into Facebook’s anatomy that foments partisan rage.
People around the world were shocked when Hillary Clinton, ahead in many polls, didn’t end up the U.S.‘ president-elect. But that doesn’t mean the polls themselves were wrong.
Where problems arose, voting was generally able to keep going smoothly. But those failures serve as a warning of how bad things could get if we don’t replace our voting machines soon.
Despite complications and challenges, elections in Somalia promise to be a game changer.
From coast to coast, the 2016 election has torn up the usual order.
Though there is no indication hackers affected the outcome of the election, we still must act to improve the cybersecurity of American elections.
Every four years, voters in Florida are more in demand than almost any in the US. And this year they’re especially exhausted.
President Obama is right to say it’s very, very hard to rig an American election. That doesn’t mean things always go to plan.
Donald Trump is wrong: the US election can’t be rigged. But it’s a different story in Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Gabon and Mexico.
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of East Anglia
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII)
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Professor of Political Science, Director of Center for Islamic & Arabic Studies, San Diego State University
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Principal Lecturer, CSEE & Assistant Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Government, American University School of Public Affairs
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